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jB r m GRANITE.
Boot It la Qu»rrl«-«1 mid I’rapararf for
fJia—Whcrit tha stone Conue* From.
A reporter of the Cincinnati Sun, in
an interview wffh nn ol«I-riit»<- contrac
tor obtained tbe following information
in regard to granite: “In the first place,
granite appears to be the fundamental
rock of the earth a crust, and is nearly
always found in its perfect state in
mountainous regions. 1o be sure, it is
occasionally found as the superficial
rock in flat’or rolling plains, but most
always is found in bills and mountains.
Jt i> the hardest to get at of any of the
more valuable of the building rocks,
but when uncovered and opened up is
comparatively easy to work into rough
shapes, but polishing is another mat
ter. ’
••How is it discovered?"
‘•Generally it crops out on the face of
ael iff high un on a bill or mountain,
hundreds of feet above convenient ave
nues of travel. The first thing to bo
done is to climb up and skin tin- <j*imr
ry—that is, strip off sod and soil and
blast out a ledge for the workmen.
Then they hunt lor seams and fissures to
lessen the work of blasting. Sometimes
acres u|M»n acres have to be skinned be
fore a single seam or crack can be
found. Hut when they find a seam they
have half solved the problem of quar
rying, because the seams show which
wav the granite will work most easily.
•■Then granite has grain:'
•*Yes, a sort of grain enough, any
how, to make it split accurately by prop
er manipulation. Frequently the seams
traverse in parallel lines, in which eases
the workman has a comparative picnic.
First he drills long rows of holes from
three mid a iialf inches to ten feet in
depth and from five to ten inches
apart.”
. ••Then lie blasts it out and that’* all
there is of it?"
“Scarcely. When he lias drilled
around a section ten or twenty feet wide
by forty to eighty long lie takes a lot of
half round irons, pointed like the drills,
and acts them in the holes in pairs, llat
sides together, of course. Next lie sets
in his feathers, which are nothing but
small, slender, und very lough steel
wedges, lie goes along with a light
• ainmer and begins driving in his
wedges witli equal force., so that the
strain increases evenly all along the
line. Pretty soon there is a sharp re
tort and the big granite rectangle
pimps up out of its bed with a deep liol
,uw on its under surface, there being no
means of getting at the bottom center
with half rounds and leathers."
“Is the granite then hauled to the
cities to he worked up?"
••No. Do you suppose they have der
ricks up there on the mountains big
enough to lift two or three thousand
tons? The same process is renewed
along the •gram’ to break the stone into
long strips, and it is then broken apart
laterally by sharp tools and hammers.
Os course there is enormous waste, hut
when granite is found at all there is
generally an abundance of it, so it isn’t
much ot an object to save it. I lie diffi
culty in working it is wluit makes it
eo»L The granite blocks used in these
streets are worked down from the great
rectangular masses just as 1 have said."
“Where does mlr paving granite come
from, to be definite?"
••Hoek|s>rt and Quincy. Mass., and
the coast of Maine are furnishing the
most of wliat we are using here; hut fine
paving and building granite is found in
the Thousand islands and in New
Uriinswiek.”
I “How is it shipped?”
“Pretty much as it’s laid on the side
walks, only not in as great a bulk A
boi-car will hold 1,200 blocks, which
are worth only about #l2O a car. So
you hoc the railroads get a mighty fat
thing out of the transportation, as com
pared with the value of the stuff.”
“Where is the finest granite found?"
“Aberdeen, Scotland. That is the
ml grauitc, which is full of quartz. It
take on a magnificent polish, Out you’ve
probably noticed that they don’t carve
it elaborately. If a man wants a monu
ment of Scotch granite to hold his ca
daver down he must be satisfied with
very quiet designs, lint it holds its
•harp edges, when they’re once on, for
ages, almost The Egyptians had the
granite business down to a liner point
than any oilier people on the round
earth. They weren’t satisfied with
•hining it up. but they carved it and
worked it as a baker works ginger
bread.
“Another thine the people don’t gen
erally know, is that many of the so-call
ed precious stones arc nothing hut
quartz—one of the principal consti
tuents of granite. Agate, amethyst,
canielian, cat’a-eyc, chalcedony, geode,
and jas|**r arc all quartz formations,
and our pleasure traps end garbage
carts arc trundling over acres of such
rubbish every dev. Yet people call us
Cincinnatians stingy. Science found a
way to counterfeit these stones in paste,
though, just about the same time >lie
discovered how common is the natural
article, so that the market is surfeited
with both, and neither is wanted. 'Urn
ailian pebble’ spectacles are made from
quartz, and California diamonds, w hen
not artificial, are worked from large,
dear masses of quart/, which are found
in Madagascar."
A lieuutifut Country.
The fervor aud glow of this tropical
country, writes a correspondent lrom
Mexico, i> incredible to one who has
never experienced it. I’he earth seems
to have reveled iu a thousand forms of
frolic life in mere wanton ness. Every
hair’s-breadth of soil is covered with a
tangle of rare and strange forms; in
terlacing vines leap from tree to tree,
and luxuriant parasites cling to the
boughs as if jealous of tilling every
open space 1-avish bloom, in gor
geous masses of red and yellow, glows
alike ou tree and shrub, until one al
most fancies the forests tilled with the
gaudv plumage of birds, so large and
striking are the separate blossoms.
Here and there, as in the falls of the
Atoyac, the water breaks through
some mountain gap, to burv itself iu a
fathomless depth of verdure below,
and a rich, sensuous delight hold.- one
enthralled in a delicious languor. It
is s paradise for the body, but it is too
union for the soul. Spiritual strength
weakens before this luxurious mass of
material force. 1 can not couceive of
great work being done in this seduc
tive world. Beautiful as Circe, it is
the mortal and not the immortal to
Whom its fascinations appeal. _
Our Sunday Night Teas.
I believe in a good dinner on Sunday,
the only day in the week when the gude
man of my house has his dinner with
his family. 1 also believe in making
Sunday a day of rest and gladness for
my faithful, hard-worked Chloe. How
to combine these two tilings has long
been a problem, which at last vve have
solved, to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned.
We have dinner at half-past one,
when we come from Sunday School.
The table is laid with snowy cloth and
the best china always, and generally
for one guest. We like to bring home
with us some borne-sick student or palo
faced teacher, who only hoards, not
lives, or a friend who loves a Sunday
“sing," and can help with fingers or
voice. Chloe, in a fresh calico and
white apron, comes in to wait on us,
when her dinner, nicely served and
garnished, is ready. In summer we
give up soup, aud have a lettuce or to
mato salad between the meat course and
dessert, and there is always coffee or tea
last. The dinner is the pleasantest and
most leisurely of the week, as well as
the nicest As much as possible is pre
pared on Saturday. By four o’clock
Chloe has everything cleared away, her
breakfast table neatly set, and goes
smiling out of the side door in her best
array, not to return till ten o'clock.
<)u a side table in the dining-room she
has set out a waiter, with a plate of
thin bread and butter nicely piled, a
basket of cake, a pitcher of iec-walor,
another of milk, a dish of baked apples
or fruit, over all a napkin. There is
also the little Japanese tray and tea
things, with which the tea is always
made on the table, instead of being
boiled and spoiled in the kitchen. If it
is winter, she leaves tile tea-kettle ready
to boil ut a minute’s notice. In sum
mer 1 boil the water in a saucepan over
the kitchen gas. It takes five minutes,
and that is all the work to he done for
our Sunday night teas. The meal is
made perfectly informal. If wo are go
ing to evening service, my hus hand and
1 sometimes take ours when we come
home, and let the rest of the family
have theirs when they choose.
Sometimes wc have happy Sunday
evenings at home, all together. These
are the best, and will have a hold on
the children, I am sure, while they live.
There are long, quiet chats, with
•I’apa” in the middle of the sofa, the
little head > on each side nestled close;
or our favorite game, each repenting a
line of poetry, beginning with A, and
so going through the alphabet; or sing
out of our beautiful Sunday School
Hymnal, which is so much underrated
by people in general. Oil these even
ings our tea becomes a real pleasure.
1 bring the waiter into the library, and
put it on a little, round table before thu
open fire. While the Souchong is brew
ing in the little, blue china teapot, tho
children pass the bread and butter, or
every body helps himself in picnic fash
ion without ceremony. 11l .summer tho
little table is wheeled out on the piazza,
and we have our tea there, with tho
shadows of the vino leaves dancing
over us while we watch the sinking
sun. Ten minutes is more than enough
to gather up the few dishes afterward.
The children, happy in anything out of
week-day routine, say, “How lovely
Sunday is!” And we elders think.
How good God is who gave us our
home! Mrs. S. 11. Gilman, in (loud
Honsi keeping.
'“ Tlie Ocvil anil Brandy.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian novo
11st, has given a new turn to his imagi
nation. He has produced a farce in six
nets with the title, “The First Brandy
Distiller.” The work is completed, and
if the sanction of the censor can be at
tained, and it is not expected that there
will ho any difficulty, the novel produc
tion will before long find its way to the
stage. The work is neither of political
nor religious character. It is based
upon the Russian legends relating to
the invention of brandy by the devil.
Devils, indeed, are the only characters
of the piece. The plot is as follows:
Mankind is led astray by these satanie
emissaries, and supremacy over their
victims is heslowou upon the chief of
demons. This chief divides his devils
according to position and sex. Some
arc commissioned to corrupt noble peo
ple, others business people; others,
again, arc charged with the corruption
of women and girls, of lawyers, and so
on. All the devils discharge their tasks
to the lull satisfaction of their sovereign,
saving one, who should have led the
peasantry astray. This one is punished
until, in despair, lie promises to do his
duty well. After receiving a supple
mentary cudgeling, lie goes among the
peasants ami takes service as a simple
servant. lle works so diligently for ids
master that the latter becomes incalcula
bly rich, his corn accumulating to such
an extent that it can not all no used.
Here the demon servant advises his
master to make spirit of his corn. The
experiment is made, and the farmer is
delighted with the result. Ho calls his
wife, children, ami neighbors together,
and the general verdict on the liquor is
that it tastes excellent. The company
indulges to such a degree that singing,
dancing, shrieking, then abuse, vio
lence. and impropriety, become the or
der of the day. Matters having reached
this jHiint, the supreme devil makes his
appearance, lie rejoices al the ingen
uity of his subject, und awards him
praise. Here is tho denouement The
play certainly has a moral, which prob
ably needs (minting in Russia as much
as anywhere, Ball -Mali Gazette.
lVliiee Join. amt Die I.ltllo Man.
President Van Huron's son, familiar
ly known as I’rimv John, was a mail of
great natural ability, a good lawyer and
a readv wit On one occasion he had
taken some technical legal advantage
by w nidi his opiionont’s client iu an ac
tion was non-suited. The man was fur
ious, and declared his purpose to give
John a piece of his mind w hen he saw
him; tic would wither turn. Happening
to see John one day at Downing’s,
standing at the bar, tie boldly confront
ed the lVi nee. and, being a small man,
looked up at hiiu fiercely anil burst out:
••Mr. Van Huron, is there any client so
low and mean or any ease so nasty that
vou wouldn’t undertake to defend hint
!in it?" “1 don’t know," said John,
stopping to put away another oyster;
then bending down and confidentially
drawling out ins reply in the little tnan s
ear: “What you been doing?’’- Ben:
I'liicy t'oore, in Boston Bud jit.
HE MET THEM.
A OraiiKßr’s Expert, nee With Sleek-Look
tng Men as Told l»y Himself.
A short, thick-set man, about 65 years
of age, with little twinkling black eyes,
a short, stubby gray beard, and a very
red face, alighted from the F'alls train
Saturday night. In one hand the little
old man carried a massive oak walking
stick and the other was engaged in
clutching an old-time carpet bag that
had evidently done service for ages. A
wide-brimmed soft felt hat, from under
which now and then a strangling lock
of yellow hair was seen, and a red
handkerchief around his neek did not
! make the farmer a beauteous creature
to look ujKjn.
When the train had made a stop the
old gentleman commenced pacing up
and down the platform in an excited
way. muttering to himself. Seeing a
baggageman, lie walked up to him and
striking the oak stick on tbe floor with
a force that would have been a credit
to a trip-hammer, said:
"Say, my name’s John Graham. I’m
from Dutchess county, I am. and I’m in
kind of a hustle to git hum. Can you
tell me when the cars go?”
“Where do you want to go?” asked
the baggage fiend.
“Ter Poughkeepsie, by gosh. I own
a rattlin’ farm down there."
On being informed that the train lie
desired to take left at 11:30 the old man
started for the waiting-room, where ho
met a reporter, and asked:
“Say, friend, where can an old man
get a drink of water?”
After following the direction indi
cated, and relieving his thirst, the
farmer returned to tiie platform aud as
tonished the station men with his feats
of pedestrianism as he went from one
end of the station to tho other with pro
digious strides. Finally he walked up
to a number of men wno were sitting
on a truck and again asked about the
train. After being told, one of the men
asked him where lie lived.
"Down near Poughkeepsie,” he
answered.
“Been away on a visit?” was the next
question.
“Vans, I’ve sorter ben visitin’ my
dater up iu llerrian county, Michigan.
.She got married and moved up ttiar
some years ago, and I haint seen her
until 1 went up thar. I’m on my way
hum tiow, bun I’m a blarsted old idiot.
I am. I've been robbed, skinned right
out of my money,” and lie jammed the
stick down so fiercely that all of his
auditors jumped.
“How’s that, friend?" asked one of
the listeners.
“When 1 left hum,” replied the farm
er, “I took about §1)0 with me, besides
what it cost me to go and come. It
didn’t cost me anything up at John’s,
but blarst my skin if 1 hain’t out nigh
on ter S3O. Jes’ after the cars left
Detroit 1 was siltin’ iu the seat and a
kinder good-lookin’ sort of a man came
: in and sat down next to me and com
menced talkin’, and I’ll be blasted es he
wasn’t a darned nice fellei. Birueby
another man came iu with a valise and
asked if the other seat was taken. I
said ‘No,’ and he sot down. We talked
and talked and 1 got quite well ac
quainted with him, and we eat lunch to
gether. After a while one fellow took
out a little box and laid a paper on his
knee and said:
•• T’ve just picked up something new,
friends, and don’t miud showing it. It
is a neat little gag.’
“Ho had three little silver things like
a bali cut in two, and a little square
button, and the trick was to tell where
tho button was. Gosh. I guessed five
or six times and hit it every jump.
Bimebv the other man bet a dollar that
lie could guess, and he guessed and got
the chink. So 1 bet like a darned fool,
as my wife says 1 allers was, and I got
it. Gosh, 1 kept right on buttin' aud I’ll
be blowed es 1 ain’t short S3O to the
best callerlation, and those fellows are
havin’ a good time on my money. I
don’t know what Jolm'll do when lie
asks me to pay the thrashin’ bill. Oh,
but I'm an old fool, just as Mehitablo
said. ” — liocheslcr Democrat.
Counting a Million.
An exchange has been making one of
those foolish computations that period
ically go the rounds of the press regard
ing the shortest possible length of time
in which a rery large number could be
: counted—-in this instance a billion. As
nobody outside of an insane asylum has
any intention of counting a billion, liow
! ever, it is of no possible consequence
j whether it could be done in less than
; the time given by the computer, which
is over 9,000 years, or not. It is, how
ever. a fact that a Buffalo family, while
traveling over Europe in a carriage
I years ago, made a test of the matter of
! counting a million. Fiv*> members of
i the family performed the ta-k respect -
i lvolv in three weeks, four weeks, live
weeks, two months and six months. As
j the time was spent entirely in driving
aboutlheeontiiieiit.it was impossible
to put in live or six hours steady count
ing a day, and l>y the use of pebbles,
which were shifted from one pocket to
the other to mark tens and hundreds,
the labor was greatly facilitated. It
may readily be imagined that the count
ing became a terrible boro to such of
the party as were not participants, and
one of the latter admits a n'folleetmu of
sometimes in tiiose days finding him
self counting when iie should have been
saying his prayers, so median cal did
the iiabil become before the task was
finished.— Buffalo Courier.
A Wise Huinmmjt-Hiril.
Wisdom does not depend on size, as
you all know, my dears. The a*t and
the bee, in fact, often seem to know
more than some of the largest animals.
The humming-bird, too, though the
smallest of birds, is not lacking in intel
| licence. A friend of the Deacon tells a
nieasant little story of one that was try
ing to secure the honey from a flower
with a deep cup, and at the same time
was plainly very tired. The flower
grew near a porch where a family was
sitting, and, seeing the trouble of the
bird, a youug girl walked slowlv toward
him. holding out her linger. The tired
bird looked sharply at her aud then ac
cepted the offered perch, alighted on the
finger, and, when it was held close to
the flower, returned to his work of
honey-gathering. The girl stood quiet
ly. and he us<>d her finger vs a resting
place till he had finished his meal, when
Ir o flew away home. A wise humming
| bird that, say I, and a wise girl, too.
1 •—BL Sicholai, .
Till; DAKK CONTINENT. '
Only Five TThftr I’eopto in a City of 5 ; 00C
—A Wild and Curious Country.
Dr. Ralph St John Perry, who went
from this city to Africa several month*
ago, in a letter to a friend here writes
from Cape Mount about his experience
in the Dark Continent: “Monrovia is
built upon a bed of iron-ore, part of
which assays 90 per cent pure iron.
The town contains 5,000 people, five of
whom are white. it has no drug
stores, no library, no public halls, no
barber shop, no saloons, no streets, and
very few fences. They have no need
for streets, as they have no horses or
vehicles. The population is divided in
to three classes—the natives, or abori
' giues, the Liberians, or children born
here of foreign parents, and toe enii
* grants, or foreigners. The latter are on
a par with those shipped to the United
Slates of America from Europe—poor,
ignorant, and lazy.
“The Kroos. a native tribe, were
formerly the slave dealers of this coast.
Every Kroomatt has a blue tattoo mark
down tlie middle of bis forehead, ex
tending on down the nose. They cut
their hair with bits of broken bottles,
and cut it in all sorts of styles. Instead
of tattooing, tbe women paint them
selves from head to toot; it is no uncom
mon thing to see a girl xvitlgthe Liberian
flag painted on her forehead. Some ol
the women, whose husbands or fathers
work for Americans, wear the United
States tlag, but nothing can induce
them to wear the British llag, as they
all hate Englishmen, and will havo
nothing to do with them. We use live
nations’ money hero —United States,
English, Dutch, French, and Liberian,
ami occasionally a Spanish gold coin,
i “The country here is very broken and
wild. The mountain above us is rocky,
and only inhabited by goats, deer, and
other wild animals. Monkeys are
abundant, and play havoc with the
gardens below at night. Our hill is
planted vvilii coffee trees, and our coffee
is excellent. it is picked, cleaned,
roasted, cooked, and drank inside of
twenty-four hours. We have fresh ven
ison, chicken, and fish every day, with
rice, cassava, plantains, and greens.
The cassava is a tuber like the sweet
potalo in shape, and looks and tastes
like a mixture of beeswax and plaster of
paris. Pepper is put into everything
eatable, and very plentiful, too. Our
native boy, who tends to roasting and
pounding up tlie coffee, was not satis
lied until he had put a big handful of
pepper into it, which was not discover
ed until we tried to drink it. We have
a now coffee boy now. A small water
melon a foot long sells liei’e for a shil
ling, but two pineapples as big as your
head sell for otic cent; bananas and
plantains sell for 10 cents a bunch;
mango plums, which sell in New York
for 25 cents each, can be had here for
| one cent a dozen. All these fruits grow
| wild, and the only charge is for the
I trouble of getting them to yon. Flowers
are most abundant- magnolia every
j where, and heliotrope is used for hedges,
I while lilies- and passion-Howers are
| trod under fool, so thick arc they. From
j my oilice window 1 can see ferns twenty
feel high, orange trees in ail stages of
| production from blossom to fruit. The
j boys use oranges to play cricket with.
! Birds, insects, fish, and snakes are
! plentiful. 1 had a young boa-constric
| lor three feet long offered mo for 50
cents. Ivory is brought here occasion
ally to sell. Our natives are not hunt
ers, so there is not much done in that
line.
“The bank of our lake —Peso —is dot
ted all along with native towns, called
bush-towns. Two houses make a town;
each town of 100 houses has a King or
Governor. .Sometimes a King has sev
eral small towns. All the people are
called the King’s children, and dare
| not do anything without his consent.
| One man who wanted to come to see me
j about a tumor had to send twenty miles
to get permission from his King. The
King sent me a message giving me
authority to do anything i wished to the
man, and he would be responsible so;
all costs. When at Monrovia 1 engage!
a Kroo boy at a salary of $25 a year U
attend the office and do such work as I
required, but be was so lazy I had to
give him the grand bounce. He was
too lazy to eat, and, rather than see
him starve, 1 sent him home, where
somebody could feed him. My new boy
is about 20 years old, named Monio —
Vex name for Mohammed —and he is
heir to one of the Vev thrones, his father
being an up-country King. Momo
wanted to learn English, so he ran away
from home and came to the mission,
and I took him in and adopted him.
His people came down with cloth and
sheep, and tried to coax him back—no
;o. His elder brother ran away also,
and has just left on the ship Liberia for
the United States. By the way, 1 have
she only United Slates flag in Liberia,
the United States Consul having none.
The medical school has opened xvith a
fair attendance. We have a plant hero
called ‘boolo,’ and *bonda,’ by the na
tives, and ‘vegetable mercury’ by the
whites, which is twenty times stronger
than castor-oil, one drop of a 5 per
cent tincture causing a very brisk cath
arsis.
"The girls, as soon as they are able to
\ valk and talk, are put in the ‘gree
gree bush,’ a sort of convent, where
they are instructed in their duties as
j women and wives. They are usually
' sold by their parents m marriage as
j s*on as they are born. If not sold they
must remain in the ‘gree-gree bush’ un
til some one buys them. The old girls
In the ‘bush’ instruct the new ones. A
wife costs about sls. When the bidding
*akes place the bride comes with pres
ents to the groom, and he must trive in
return double as much as she brings. A
man may have as many wives as he can
pay for—in fact, they are the African
oranch of the Mormon Church. The
boys are kept in the ‘gree-gree bush’
until of age, generally 14 years. Should
one cf either sex disclose the secrets of
their ‘bush,’ or oue be caught in tlie
other's ‘bush,’ he or she is put to death
publicly.— lndianapolis Journal.
Country pardon (to city visitor)
i “Didn't J see vou at church to-day?”
City visitor—" Yes. aud, if you will be
lieve it, it was the tirst time that I can
remember when 1 didn't go to sleep be
fore the sermon was half over.''
. Country parson—lndeed! but I am
afraid you are trying to flatter me,”
City visitor—“O, dear no; it wasn't
, that: it was the flies.” Country parson
—“O'” —Huston Transcript.
Tin: EXCELSIOR GEYSER.
Some facts About the Yellowstone's Ter
rific Water Volcano.
The famous Excelsior Geyser, which
burst into active eruption in the Yellow
stone National Park recently, is the
most terrible water volcano in the
world. It was discovered and made
known to the scientific world by Prof.
Hayden in 1871. At that time it was
not distinctly characterized as a geyser,
but it attracted his attention ax a mar
velously active and sinister-looking cal
dron of boiling water and was so im
pressive that he charted it in his re
ports and made particular mention of
it both on his first and second explora
tions of the Yellowstone geyser basins.
The Excelsior, or, as it is called in
some of the Governmental reports,
Sheridan Geyser, is situated on the
rio-ht or westerly bank of the Pil'e-llole
River, about eight miles south of the
fol ks of the Fire-Hole, where they form
a junction with the Gibbon. It is the
great feature of what is known as Hull’s
Half Acre, a detached terrace of vol
canic springs lying between the lower
and upper geyser basins. In each of
these two greater basins there are nu
merous active geysers, but at Hell’s
Half Acre the Excelsior is the only gey
ser, the other thermal pools being sim
ply hot springs—one of them, however,
termed the Great Prismatic Spring, be
ing of extraordinary size and beauty.
The Excelsior and Prismatic are the
two chief objects on the terrace. When
Hayden lirst saw the Excelsior it was a
deep blue cistern, scalding hot and
greatly agitated by the subterranean
heat. Its waters were level with the
floor of the terrace; it had a narrow,
lissure-like outlet, furrowed by the ac
tion of the water, on the sinter of
which the terrace had been formed and
through which its water was discharged
into the Fire-Hole. It was then of a
diameter of something like fifty feet.
On his second visit Hayden found that
the basin had been considerably en
larged by the action of the spring, and
Unit its outlet channel had grown wider
and more irregular. For seven or eight
years it was an object of awe to the few
travelers who found their way through
this weird region.
It was the night of Jan. 24. 1881,
however, that the great pool suddenly
and unexpectedly burst forth as a gey
ser, xvith much of the dreadful roar and
subterranean rumbling of a fiery vol
cano and xvith most destructive energy
against its oxvn walls. The outburst or
explosion occurred after midnight, and
xvas heard by George W. Marshall, a
pioneer xvho had wandered into this
wilderness of xvonders a year or txvo be
fore and had made his camp at the
forks of the Fire-Hole, where he lives
to this day. It xvas in the dead of an
icebound xvintcr in the Rocky Moun
tain realm, but Marshal says the noise,
the rumbling, the explosions, and the
tremblings of the earth that accom
panied tlie eruption awoke him at a
distance of certainly eight miles and
appalled him. Nevertheless, he sur
mised xvhat tlie uproar portended, and
early next morning he rode over to the
Half-Acre to see xvhat sort of infernal
excavation had been going on during
tlie night. His anticipation xvas veri
fied. The Excelsior Pool was then in a
perfect frenzy, and the destruction it
had wrought was terrible. The terrabe
and the opposite bank of the river was
strewn with masses of rock, bowlders,
and huge as xvell as small masses of
silicious sinter, of which not only the
surface of the bank but its substratum
and even the lower depths and chan
nels of the great spring itself were com
posed. In its terrible throes the mon
ster had belched x-olleys of these from
its throat, it had thrown up also per
fect deluges of scalding water that had
drenched everything for hundreds of
yards around, had raised the level of
the river a foot, and heated its current
for miles.
Thereafter the Excelsior became one
of the marvels of the region, though
comparatively fexv were fortunate
enough to xvitness its eruption, xvliich
took place at irregular iutervals of fif
teen to twenty-live days, and lasted
about six to eight hours. These great
convulsions throwing a column of wa
ter about 200 feet high, tore open the
outlet and made it a deep and ragged
channel, widened the margins of the
pool itself, and lowered the surface of
the water about twelve feet to the level
of the lowest point of the outlet. The
iiHsin has now a diameter of 200 feet.
In the xvinter of 1888 it ceased its
cm tion*, and since that time and un
;il its recent outbreak, had remained
quiescent.—-V. Y. Herald.
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